{"id":13694,"date":"2020-02-04T23:20:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T14:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/04\/african-countries-rush-to-reinforce-defences-against-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-02-04T23:20:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T14:20:45","slug":"african-countries-rush-to-reinforce-fragile-defences-against-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13694","title":{"rendered":"African countries rush to reinforce &#8216;fragile&#8217; defences against coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health officials raise concerns that many African countries are ill-equipped to combat the virus<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/04\/coronavirus-live-updates-china-wuhan-outbreak-death-toll-latest-news-update\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>African countries are rushing to reinforce their defences against the rapidly spreading coronavirus, as health officials say many countries on the continent are ill-equipped to combat the potentially lethal disease.<\/p>\n<p>There have been no verified infections in Africa to date, but porous borders, a continuing flow of travellers and poorly resourced healthcare systems have raised fears that the virus could spread rapidly if the precautions of local authorities prove inadequate.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/04\/african-countries-rush-to-reinforce-defences-against-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health officials raise concerns that many African countries are ill-equipped to combat the virusCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesAfrican countries are rushing to reinforce their defences against the rapidly spreading coronavirus, as health officials say man&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":924,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,41,50,1069,914,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13727,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13694\/revisions\/13727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}